nitiû

• niti, nitibi, nitiûi (all Língua Geral Amazônica)

Univerbation of n'- +‎ i +‎ tyb +‎ -i, literally “there isn’t”.

nitiû (Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua Geral Paulista)

1. not

   Synonym: na- -i

   • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Absterse de comer”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 2, column 1, line 82; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 99:

     nití ambaeú potár

     [Niti amba'e'upotar.]

     I don’t want to eat.

   • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Affavel ser”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 2v, column 2, line 1; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 101:

     nití xerouáacý.

     [Niti xe roûaasy.]

     I’m not sullen.

     (literally, “I don’t have a pained face.”)

   • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Despido estar”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 14v, column 1, line 300; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 149:

     nití arecó aóba.

     [Niti arekó aoba.]

     I don’t have clothes.

   • 1750s, anonymous author, chapter 2, in book 1, in Doutrina christaã em lingoa geral dos Indios do Estado do Brasil e Maranhaõ [Christian doctrine in the general language of the Indians of the state of Brazil and Maranhão]‎^[1] (overall work in Latin and Língua Geral Amazônica), folio 10:

     Nitíu ceté: Tupã Taýra äé apŷaba onhemonháng riré, é ceté.

     [Nitiû seté. Tupã Ta'yra a'e apŷaba onhemonhang riré é seté.]

     He was not corporeal. After God the Son made himself that man he was corporeal.

• Nheengatu: ti, nti

• Arronches, João de (1739), “NAM”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 227: “nitiu”
• Frei Onofre (1751), “NAÕ”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 53, column 2: “Nitio”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Nam”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 28v, column 1, line 9; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 205: “nitibí v nitiui”
• anonymous author (c. 1757), “NÃO”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 92: “nitibi”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Nitio”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[2] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 47v: “Naõ”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “não”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, July 1936, page 158: “NITIO”